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County Statistics File 1 (CO-STAT): [United States] (ICPSR 8314)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

Data gathered from a variety of federal agencies and private
organizations are contained in this collection which provides county
statistics. Included in CO_STAT 1 are all data for counties published
in the 1983 County and City Data Book and the 1982 State and
Metropolitan Area Data Book, as well as a number of statistics not
previously published. There are several levels of data (e.g., persons,
housing units, and local governments). The collection supplies
information on the following general a... (more info)

Data gathered from a variety of federal agencies and private
organizations are contained in this collection which provides county
statistics. Included in CO_STAT 1 are all data for counties published
in the 1983 County and City Data Book and the 1982 State and
Metropolitan Area Data Book, as well as a number of statistics not
previously published. There are several levels of data (e.g., persons,
housing units, and local governments). The collection supplies
information on the following general areas: agriculture, banking,
crime, education, elections, government, households, health, housing,
labor, land area, manufactures, money income, personal income,
population, poverty, retail trade, service industries, social insurance
and human services, savings and loan associations, veterans, vital
statistics, wholesale trade, and journey to work. Records are included
for each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia as well as
3,137 counties or county equivalents.

Access Notes

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Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. County Statistics File 1 (CO-STAT): [United States]. ICPSR08314-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research[distributor], 1985. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08314.v1

Universe:
The universe varies from item to item within the file,
e.g., all persons, all housing units, all local governments, etc.

Data Types:
aggregate data

Data Collection Notes:

The Footnotes File contains notes associated with
specific data cells which qualify the data in some way. Examples
include a reference period different from the norm, the combination of
data for two or more areas, or incomplete reporting of data among
areas. Before beginning analysis, the data user is urged to review the
applicable footnotes for data items to be used.

Methodology

Data Source:

COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK, 1983, STATE AND METROPOLITAN
AREA DATA BOOK, 1982, and data supplied by several federal agencies
including the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Economic Analysis,
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Social Security
Administration, as well as private organizations such as the American
Dental Association, the American Hospital Association, and the American
Medical Association.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1985-03-18

Version History:

2006-01-18 File CB8314.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.